Hi John and Marcus,

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, John Wright wrote:

> Well.  It nearly works.  It stops when it would start mounting my discs. 
> If I try single user mode it will stop when I hit enter after being
> asked the single user question (forgot what it is now). 

Great! 

> Does it take long to compile kernels on an ARM7?  I've kinda shyed away
> from the idea simple because of how long it would take. 

Well, compared to my Sparc-SLC it's blighting fast... say 2:15 compared to
4:30+ ... 

> I'm a bit lost now.  Is there a way of preloading the ramdisk-14.fs - or
> actually using it?  Doesn't seem to be mentioned in the docs I've looked
> at. 

Never used the ramdisk-14.fs....  but .... Just Cheat!! Use the install
kernel with ramdisc from NetBSD 1.3.2, then you have a nice running kernel
with installation ram-disc!. It's a great recovery / upgrade kernel
anyway.... so store it next it the NetBSD loader on ADFS.

Then format your disc with sysinstall (?) utility and just copy the NetBSD
1.4 stuff on it. I configured my ethernet device by hand and mounted a NFS
partition on /mnt2 containing the tar's.

Just be sure to unpack all tar's after you made the correct mounts i.e. 
mount / in /mnt and mount the /usr partition in /mnt/usr etc. and unpack
in /mnt. The `fstab' is generated as far as I know in /mnt/etc/fstab, but
mount the partitions by hand since it's paths are now stil invalid. 

After untarring, copy the old (just to be sure) and the new kernel onto
it, close down and restart! As a start, I used to first boot the kernel
from ADFS, just later on native. 

Give it a try! 

Success,

Reinoud